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The Little Rock Zoo welcomed two new elephants, Sophie and Babe, who arrived this afternoon from the Niabi Zoo in Coal Valley, Illinois. The elephants traveled overnight and were unloaded safely into the elephant barn and are being closely tended to by Zoo staff as they make the adjustment to their new home.
"The Little Rock Zoo couldn't be more excited to add Sophie and Babe to our Zoo family," said Zoo Director Mike Blakely. "The Little Rock Zoo is committed to the highest standards in elephant care and conservation and specializes in handling geriatric female elephants. We are excited that Niabi Zoo has picked our Zoo as the new home for their elephants and we know our guests join Zoo staff in welcoming them to Little Rock."
Sophie and Babe were transported by Feld Entertainment, Inc. and the Ringling Elephant Conservation Center who moved the elephants free of charge to both zoos. Babe and Sophie are both former Ringling elephants and were donated to Niabi in 2000 and 2003, respectively.
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The Niabi Zoo announced recently that it would end its elephant program and look for a new home for Sophie, age 44, and Babe, age 38. Niabi sought to find a new location for the elephants with a more temperate climate at a facility with staff trained in the care and management of aging female elephants. Niabi conducted a nation-wide search to relocate Sophie and Babe and hired elephant expert Alan Roocroft as a consultant to recommend a new home for Babe and Sophie.
Roocroft visited the Little Rock Zoo to do an assessment of the elephant program and chose Little Rock as the best new home for the Niabi elephants stating in his report that the elephant staff at Little Rock had several years' experience handling elephants and provides excellent care for its elephant, Zina, a 53-year-old elephant, who Roocroft says is in excellent health for her age.
Roocroft evaluated staff ability, the elephant facility, and the elephant health program at Little Rock to provide a recommendation to Niabi. The report was very complementary of Little Rock's elephant program and even states, "A word of compliment to the elephant staff, you rarely see such a clean well organized facility where each tool has its place and where you could eat off the floor. Well done to them."
The Little Rock Zoo is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). Look for the AZA logo whenever you visit a zoo or aquarium as your assurance that you are supporting a facility dedicated to providing excellent care for animals, a great experience for you and a better future for all living things. With its more than 200 accredited members, AZA is a leader in global wildlife conservation and your link to helping animals in their native habitats. For more information, visit www.aza.org.


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Realization: Mother's Day is in a week and a half and I not only lack gifts for my mother, I also lack ideas for gifts for my mother.
Stevie is buying my mom a new collar for himself to wear. It might seem selfish, but, with the theme of the collar and our XOXO fanaticism, I think she'll be tickled pink.
Other than that, though, we're screwed.
I think I might give her a card that says something along the lines of:
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Goddam these tricky word verifications. I lost my comment. I was saying that you should buy your make a card and give her the gift of Alyson. Write her a letter as only you can write. I'm sure she'll cherish it forever. Just go easy on the f-bombs.
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Can I cut the branches that are hanging to our side without telling the neighbor?
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Neighbor's Pine Tree
Original post made by pTownLover, Birdland, on May 29, 2012
Can I cut the branches that are hanging to our side without telling the neighbor?
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a resident of Vintage Hills
on May 29, 2012 at 2:03 pm
Here's one site: Web Link Better to work with the neighbor, even if you have to cover the cost of a tree trimmer?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 29, 2012 at 2:15 pm
If you harm the tree in any way the neighbor can sue. My cousin in another county paid $3,000 for an arborist to prepare a legal document stating that his neighbor harmed a tree with aggressive pruning. Went to court, tree trimming neighbor was stuck with all costs, including tens of thousands of dollars in damages for loss of property value.
You harm that tree, you will be sorry. FYI, I agree that the tree should be trimmed, just don't do it without working with the neighbor. And if that tree is a "heritage tree" (look that up on the city website) the fine can be thousands of dollars to the city just to touch the tree.
a resident of Avila
on May 29, 2012 at 5:07 pm
Talk to the city first to make sure it's not a Heritage Tree.
a resident of Del Prado
on May 29, 2012 at 6:15 pm
If it's on your side of the fence, you can cut it.
a resident of another community
on May 29, 2012 at 6:36 pm
Doesn't everybody have an (Word removed by Pleasanton Weekly Online staff) yard crew who have the expertise to make those kinds of decisions? I always leave the manual issues to people who are best suited for stoop labor.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 29, 2012 at 9:08 pm
Ask yourself it is worth getting into a feud with your neighbor...or worse potentially into legal issues? It's always better if you can communicate and work with your neighbor if at all possible. Giving you this advice based on my work which deals with people in land disputes.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 29, 2012 at 9:26 pm
As someone who moved here recently and inherited some big redwood trees, I would be happy if a neighbor wanted to trim their side. I'd suggest talking to them.
a resident of Birdland
on May 30, 2012 at 8:05 am
I believe you can but you should consult with them first to make sure they are cool with it
a resident of Jensen Tract
on May 30, 2012 at 8:27 am
It is NOT okay to cut your neighbors tree - EVEN if it hangs over your fence. Get their permission first and if it becomes a problem - get the city involved or you'll be 'asking for it'.
a resident of Birdland
on May 30, 2012 at 8:32 am
One of the neighbors on our street took it upon himself to "trim" the branches that were hovering over his yard and pool. Well, he ended up hacking the limbs off the poor tree and the neighbor (and the rest of us) was left with a huge eyesore. And then all H*@@ broke loose because of it. It just takes a call or visit to your neighbor so they know what's going on. I'm sure they won't mind - might even thank you!
a resident of Apperson Ridge
on May 30, 2012 at 9:00 am
question is, why not just go ahead and talk to the neighbor?
a resident of Downtown
on May 30, 2012 at 9:03 am
I recommend reading Neighbor Law from Nolo Press (Web Link) and contacting the city. Mike Fulford, Pleasanton Landscape Architect will know what to do.
a resident of another community
on May 30, 2012 at 9:09 am
I apologize profusely to all readers and the PW editorial staff for using the "I" word. Goodness sakes, anyone who knows me knows that I have always been a staunch supporter of "I's". In fact I even employed some illegal "I's" until it came time to run for president. One of my first acts in office will be to purge the "I" word from American dictionaries. My second act will be to ask all illegal "I's" to self deport themselves.
a resident of Del Prado
on May 30, 2012 at 9:33 am
The Idea of being a good neighbor is where this whole thing goes off the rails.. I have three neighbors who have planted large trees within 5 feet from the fence-line. So their giant, lovely trees are hanging over my pool, roof and yard. And somehow I'm responsible for hiring a licensed Tree specialist to trim them ? I can't understand how the homeowner who planted these behemoths aren't responsible for their own tree ..? Naturally they don't want to spend thousands of dollars to trim their own trees... The trees we have here in Pleasanton are what make our City beautiful, but, something doesn't seem right here...
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 30, 2012 at 9:53 am
I'm with Pete. My rear neighbor has trees they let grow UP & out of control to shade their patio. Every year MY patio is filled with
their leaves that continue to drop in rotation for about 5 months. I'm a lone female and have to clear out knee deep leaves. Two different years their branches have ripped off their trees, one falling on my glass patio table and umbrella that got twisted. After knocking on their door he comes with a little hand saw to piece the tree to drag out. Another year a long-armed branch that covered my patio like an umbrella,peeled of his tree dropping over my side of fence. 12 years of begging him, and he says I can hire/PAY somebody to trim off.....only to DIRECTLY over our fence. I explained how much sooner he'll have to pay for his half of replacement fence, with all his vines and growth coming through our fence
a resident of Vintage Hills Elementary School
on May 30, 2012 at 10:09 am
Good luck getting the neighbor to pay for half the fence; you cannot compel him to do so.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 30, 2012 at 10:18 am
California Civil Code 841 regulates fences and such.
Web Link
Here is a good article called Your Neighbor's Fences and Trees – Are They A Nuisance?.
Web Link
a resident of Pleasanton Valley
on May 30, 2012 at 10:27 am
We had a 42 year old pine that was ugly and was dying underneath. The ugliest part hung into our neighbors yard. They asked us to cut it down, but unfortunately it was a heritage and 1) we couldn't 2) It would have been extremely costly. They trimmed their side and in the last storm 6 months ago it snapped at the base and took our our entire fence, as well as all of the neighbors. It was very scary and costly. Fortunately our insurance covered ALL of the damage to them because they had spoken to us abouttheir concerns and wanted to cut it down. If they had not had a conversation with us they would have been out of pocket. Insurance calls it an 'Act of God'. I suggest you speak to them about your concerns, and if you're able to cut it down, go for it. They were very nice, and we felt awful. Good luck! Some of those pines die around 40. It could've killed us if it fell the other way!
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on May 30, 2012 at 10:46 am
Stacey is a registered user.
Heritage trees can be removed if they are creating a dangerous situation, especially when they are sickly and dying. You have to work with the City on it. Web Link
a resident of Highland Oaks
on May 30, 2012 at 11:09 am
Who seeks legal advise from "no life nerds" on PW?
signed, NLN
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 30, 2012 at 11:48 am
Legal advice? Carlos, but local lawyers certainly have a stellar winning track record and reputation. Yes! With all those cases they've won, especially those hired by our local gov to give 'advice', and those that run over people in their Mercedes, those lawyers do walk on water don't they?
a resident of Birdland
on May 30, 2012 at 3:59 pm
Thanks much for all the viewpoints. I am much the wiser now. Will talk to neighbor and see how this can be resolved.
a resident of Birdland
on May 30, 2012 at 10:18 pm
A friendly contact with the neighbor first is best. Draft a letter that states just the facts. State what is the tree doing, and what the impact is on your family and property.
Ask whether the neighbor will agree to a trimming of the tree with shared expenses to alleviate what is the tree doing. Send the letter on plain paper, signed, and with your contact information. Do not quote law or even say that the tree is a nuisance. The facts speak for themselves.
In our case, the neighbor realized the tree was a nuisance (his words, not mine), and agreed to a trimming that alleviated the trouble.
a resident of Birdland
on May 31, 2012 at 8:18 am
My pine tree was separated from my neighbors yard by the walk through to the park. Needles got in their pool. I came home for lunch and found two men with chain saws IN MY YARD cutting down my tree. Talk to your neighbor if you can. They may be willing to LET you trim. I got permission from the city to have it removed WAY later. We still laugh at the nerve.
a resident of Downtown
on May 31, 2012 at 10:00 am
I would propose the city council should immediately get some kind of rule passed.
If my neighbor wants to plant a tree close to my property and which in future would overhang into my property, then the neighbor should send a letter to me and to the city stating that they wish to plant the tree along with tree details. If I object, then they should not be able to plant the tree.
Anyone who will support this?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 31, 2012 at 10:42 am
dontliketrees -- Absolutely YES I support that. My neighbor planted a large tree less than 12 inches from my fence. It would have dropped into my pool, damaged the fence, etc. Unfortunately (for him) the tree died of unknown causes. I explained to him the potential costs he could incur if he did that again and he chose to plant shrubs about 5 feet from the fence.
a resident of Oak Hill
on May 31, 2012 at 11:58 am
"don'tLikeTrees" said: "I would propose the city council should immediately get some kind of rule passed. If my neighbor wants to plant a tree close to my property and which in future would overhang into my property, then the neighbor should send a letter to me and to the city stating that they wish to plant the tree along with tree details. If I object, then they should not be able to plant the tree. Anyone who will support this?"
I think that that's a bit too much. Certainly, no one should plant a redwood or other large tree within a few feet of a neighbor's fence. But banning any tree which has the potential to overhang another property sounds like too much to me. In my backyard there are several medium sized trees and one large tree near the fence boundary with my neighbor, some of the trees being his and some being mine. His trees overhang a bit and my trees overhang a bit, and we're both fine with it.
Except for extreme cases such as a large tree within a foot of the fence/property line, living with your neighbors' trees is the price you pay for living in a suburban setting such as Pleasanton. If you don't like the occasional overhanging branch, or the leaves falling on your lawn, or the shadows cast by the trees, then you shouldn't have a house in Pleasanton or any other suburban setting.
a resident of Downtown
on Jun 1, 2012 at 8:15 am
Sam -- I didn't say i am against ALL trees. Just big trees that mess up my yard and where the owner doesn't care. Why do you need a pine tree near the common fence with neighbor? Small fruit trees are perfectly okay. It's all about common sense which is quite uncommon!
So with the rule in place, they will think twice before planting something that becomes a problem to other neighbors down the line.
a resident of another community
on Jun 1, 2012 at 10:25 am
Really the easiest solution I have found for this kind of thing is to hire a firm or two to lobby city government on your own behalf. A mere $80 can get you a lot. It got me a car elevator for my Mormon compound in La Jolla. That's how we do things in America, isn't it? I mean, golly sakes!
a resident of another community
on Jun 1, 2012 at 10:27 am
Oh heavens, I didn't really mean $80 DOLLARS! I meant $80 THOUSAND dollars! I'll bet you 10 grand that some of the little people are going to make a big deal about this!
a resident of Oak Hill
on Jun 1, 2012 at 1:23 pm
"dontLikeTrees" said: "Sam -- I didn't say i am against ALL trees. Just big trees that mess up my yard and where the owner doesn't care. Why do you need a pine tree near the common fence with neighbor? Small fruit trees are perfectly okay."
We're in agreement, then! I agree that big trees shouldn't be planted too close to a property line and, in fact, when we bought a house in Pleasanton I felt forced to remove a small redwood that the previous owner planted within a few feet of a neighbor's house because I felt that the tree would be a nuisance to the neighbor when it got larger.
Overall, though, I love having large trees around. Personally, I think that the presence of large shade trees give older neighborhoods a warmer character that is lacking in many newer housing neighborhoods that haven't had time to grow large trees (or maybe never will because their lot sizes are too small to accommodate large trees).
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jun 1, 2012 at 11:30 pm
Stacey is a registered user.
Regulations on neighborhood trees will need to catch up at some point. With the increasing use of solar panels on rooftops, there is the potential for real economic damage to a property owner if a neighbor plants a tree that will grow to shade or partially shade the panels.
a resident of another community
on Sep 3, 2012 at 11:29 am
It IS OKAY to cut your neighbors tree branches that hang over your side of the fence. But you can only cut to the property line and not over on their side. You also have to dispose of it yourself.
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Volleyball, on the other hand is same like the real thing though it doesn't ensure that it is way more fun. A large circle depicts where to stand. You will then dab the ball to your teammate, wait for its volley and spike it back again to the opposing end. And so it goes on and on. A continuous repetition of volleys and spikes.
Lastly, we have dodge ball. Though its pace is way much faster than that of volleyball, however once you get the hang of the game, the excitement will just become anticlimactic. The goal of dodge ball is to hit your opponent with the ball and that's it. However, one way to avoid being hit is to catch the ball and the faster you are and more alert you'll become, there is no way that the ball is going to hit you. However, once you catch the ball you'll just become the offensive player and will be the one to throw the ball. The key in this game is to learn how to catch the ball and after that everything just seems to become another repetition of throwing and catching thereby making the game a total bore.
Though the game Mario Sports Mix is not outright bad because it has its moments of fun, in the long run, the utter predictability and dullness of the game takes away most of the excitement. Compared to the previous versions of Mario games, this compilation really fell short as to what is expected. It is nice to offer a variety of Mario games but it should've been better than this.
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President Barack Obama talked up manufacturing jobs as a worthwhile pursuit for young people and said students should not suffer "because adults can't get their act together" during two rallies on Thursday.
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President Barack Obama signs a memorandum on job training after speaking at the General Electric Waukesha Gas Engines facility on January 30, 2014 in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Taking his State of the Union message on the road to Wisconsin, the president talked up skilled trades, and signed a directive to have Vice President Joe Biden lead a comprehensive review of federal job training programs.
"Not all of today's good jobs need a four-year degree. But the ones that don't need a college degree do need some specialized training," Obama said at a General Electric gas engine factory in Waukesha, Wis.
"A lot of parents, unfortunately, maybe when they saw a lot of manufacturing being offshored, told their kids you don't want to go into the trades, you don't want to go into manufacturing because you'll lose your job," Obama further explained. "Well, the problem is that a lot of young people don't see the skilled trades and manufacturing as a viable career. But I promise you, folks make a lot more – potentially – with the skilled trades and manufacturing than with an art history degree."
The president otherwise reiterated some of the highlights from his speech on Tuesday, speaking about education, equal pay for women and a higher minimum wage.
Later Tuesday, the president visited a high school in Nashville, Tenn., that he said has successfully blended the instruction of real world skills into a classroom setting.
Obama repeated educational goals such as getting high speed broadband Internet in every classroom, rewarding good teachers and encouraging schools to teach skills directly connected to a job.
"There is no child that we should let slip simply because of politics or because adults can't get their act together," he said. "We need to make sure we're reaching every single one of them as fast as we can but right now we aren't doing that."
Before the speech, Obama met with former Vice President Al Gore and actress Ashley Judd. Both Tennessee natives were also in attendance for the speech.
Thursday's trip marked the second day of Obama's post-State of the Union tour.
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An exceptionally early arrival of large numbers of elvers and eels has been recorded at the new Wiggenhall St Germans Pumping Station elver pass near Kings Lynn. After decades of very poor numbers of young eels returning from their breeding grounds in the Sargasso Sea, a significant improvement has been recorded in 2014 at many sites around the UK. At the new Wiggenhall St Germans Pumping Station, the second largest in Europe, an elver pass has been installed to allow the young eels to migrate into the waterways of the Middle Level catchment. The catchment covers 70,000 hectares of the Cambridgeshire and West Norfolk fens between the Nene Washes near Peterborough and the Ouse Washes from Earith to Downham Market.
At the beginning of April the first elvers of the year were seen making their way up the 35 meter long pass from the tidal River Ouse. The elver pass is an angled trough with bristle boards inside it that help the eels to climb up it. They are attracted to it by the fresh water that is trickled down the trough from the upstream side. 10,000 glass eels were recorded in the first three days of April.
Glass eels are the early stage of elvers (young eels) and are nearly transparent. They are thinner than a shoe lace and less than three inches (75mm) long. During the first three weeksof April nearly 50,000 elvers made their way through the pass. This is an exceptional quantity for so early in the elver migration period which lasts from April to October.
There is a chamber at the top of the elver pass where they can rest and be counted. It is difficult to count the small elvers in quantity but they can be weighed and their numbers calculated from the weight. As the season progresses the glass eels become darker and are referred to as elvers.
Later, larger young eels also climb the elver pass. They too are looking for fresh water in the Middle Level catchment to feed in. They will spend the next 10 to 15 years growing and putting on fat that will sustain them on their long journey back to their breeding grounds in the Sargasso Sea. Cliff Carson, Environmental Officer for the Middle Level BAP Partnership said 'It is great to see a boom year for elvers after so very many years when their numbers were less than 5% of the former totals returning to the UK. We hope this improved trend will continue. The St Germans Pumping Station elver pass will give excellent access for eels and elvers into the Middle Level rivers and drains that will benefit eel population recovery in the future'.
Cliff Carson is the Environmental Officer for the Middle Level Commissioners. The Middle Level Commissioners are one of the partners in the Water Care Partnership, more information on them can be found at www.middlelevel.gov.uk.


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There was much ado last month when Shia LaBeouf told a mag that "Money Never Sleeps" director Oliver Stone instructed him to head to a bar to get loaded before a pivotal scene.
While Aidan Quinn plays a drink-loving American author visting drink-loving Ireland in "The Eclipse," the actor abstained from the real stuff during key scenes. Especially during his scary-yet-hilarious brawl scene with co-star Ciaran Hinds.
Despite his drunken slurs onscreen: "I was stone cold sober during the fight," Quinn tells PopcornBiz. "I don't think it's ever a good idea to drink during anything that involves serious movement with another actor."
As it was, the two acting veterans caused some damage during the fight. Not to themselves. But they injured (for real) actress Iben Hjejle, who plays the female shared object of affection for the brawlers who unwisely jumps in to break up their fight. Onscreen she gets a bloody nose. Offscreen someone seriously squished her toes.
"One of us clodhoppers stepped on her toe and she was wearing sandals," says Quinn. "She actually broke her toe early in the day but didn't tell anyone til much later. It was right before she jumped on my back as I'm punching Ciaran, somewhere at that point she got stepped on."
The mysterious offender was never identified from the pool of two. "She was either being very discreet or didn't know who did it," says Quinn.
Quinn admits there were "a few libations discussing our sore points" at the pub afterwards.
Drinking during scenes when no one is in danger -- now that's okay. He admits to having a nip or two of Jameson before performing a scene where he stumbles drunk out of a taxi to bang on the door of his love interest.
Quinn's acting manifesto in these circumstances? "If it's a last scene of the night and you have to roll out of a taxi. And you have to slur your words a little bit. And you don't have any scenes the next day. Well, a little shot of whiskey or two might grease the wheels.
"It helped that scene singing outside her door."
"The Eclipse" is scheduled to opens today in theaters.


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Im having a problem with focus hosting a winforms usercontrol within an MFC App via a CDialog.
As described in this article
The usercontrol displays correctly. When I first attempted to select an UI item within the usercontrol, the program hanged.
Within the OnInitDialog of the CDialog I changed it to return false, then it was OK.
I could interact with the controls inside the UserControl correctly.
BOOL CDialogCaseCLR::OnInitDialog()
return FALSE; // return TRUE unless you set the focus to a control
// EXCEPTION: OCX Property Pages should return FALSE
There are some context menus that bring up dialogs within the user-control when these menuitems are selected, the dialogs never display and it just hangs again like the initial problem?
Cant get my head round what is the problem and what I have to do to solve it?
Thanks in advance


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Currently, seasonal influenza vaccine availability nationally and in Idaho varies significantly depending on the provider. To find a seasonal influenza vaccination in your area check:
Materials promoting seasonal influenza vaccination can be found on the Communication Materials page of the PANFLUidaho website.
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Florida State crushes Maryland in conference play
Terps drop to 10-7 on season
Ian Miller scored 20 as Florida State knocked down a season-high 16 three-point baskets en route to an 85-61 Atlantic Coast Conference victory against Maryland Sunday night.
The Seminoles were 16 of 24 from behind the arc after hitting 10 in the previous four games combined. The 16 3-pointers were the third-most in school history and the most by Florida State in ACC play. Okaro White scored 15 and Aaron Thomas finished with 14. Montay Brandon added 13 points and eight rebounds.
Dez Wells led Maryland with 15 points while Nick Faust added 14. The Terps began the day as the No. 3 three-point shooting team in the ACC but went 3-for-18 from behind the arc and made 17 of 51 (33.3 percent) field goals.
Sunday was the last time Maryland (10-7, 2-2) will play at Florida State (11-4, 2-1) before joining the Big Ten next season.


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What if you could be sued for your genealogy research – even if it were true? This is what happened to one of the authors of Weird Ohio which published a true story about one Ohio family's history. And a descendant brought a "false light" lawsuit against the authors.
A Genealogy Ghost Story
Making this long story short: a segment of the book recounted a mass murder by a family member and resulting ghost legends/stories at the location. The plaintiff in the suit contended that such information caused visitors and "ghost hunters" to trespass on the properly and and bring "unreasonable publicity to one's private life." You can read more about the lawsuit at the Oxford University Press USA website. The Ohio Court of Appeals site has a recent opinion (opens in PDF) from 23 December 2009.
What isn't clear even from my reading of the court papers is whether such a murder did in fact take place. The issue seems to be the resulting "legend" and "stories" about the haunting of the location.
Could I Be Sued For Factually Correct Genealogy Research?
I don't stay awake at night worrying about this but I guess it could happen if I were to add legends and mythology to a family history which can't be proven through the Genealogical Proof Standard. As a professional genealogist, I would want to – as Joe Friday would say – "just state the facts ma'am."
It is one thing to make a conclusion as to relationships, offspring, etc. It is another thing to try and validate local legends or family stories. Care should be taken to document any "family stories" as to their source if they are used to "round out" research. There are often living descendants who may not agree with the depiction of their ancestors. Keeping to the facts – proven and properly sourced via citations – can help avoid any misunderstandings as to an interpretation of family history.
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Thanks to Mike Brubaker of History by Brubaker for alerting me and other genealogy bloggers to the recent lawsuit.
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Tom Daw has spent nearly a half century under
the hood of Henry Ford's horseless carriages
by Jeff
These days its unusual
to see much activity around Tom Daws repair shop in Wayland. Tom,
whos nearly 83, is retired after more than 25 years restoring and
rebuilding antique automobiles. But before he called it quits, Tom had
to finish building one antique car he actually started nearly 40 years
before a reproduction of Henry Fords 1896 quadricycle.
Long before the Ford Motor
Company founder created his famous Model T, he experimented with the horseless
carriage. Fords first motorized vehicle looked more like a four-wheeled
bicycle than an automobile. It ran on a tiny two-cylinder engine mounted
on a frame topped with a bicycle seat, which was later changed to a carriage
seat. It wasnt the vehicle to revolutionize transportation in the
United States, but it was a start.
In 1963 Tom read a Popular
Science article about a Ford engineer building a replica of the quadricycle
and from that moment he was hooked on the idea of building one himself.
I still have the article
around here. Its pretty tattered and torn because Ive read
it hundreds of times, says Tom. It became an obsession. I
had to do it.
Tom managed the Wayland Lumber
Company for nearly 27 years. When the company was sold he found himself
looking for other work. He worked for several years for the Montgomery
Wards store in nearby Keokuk, Iowa, and began tinkering with Ford Model
Ts. He decided to quit his job and go into business, calling his shop
Tom Daw Antique Auto Restoration Center.
One of my good friends
said, Well, you wont have enough business in there to open
the doors. And you know, it wasnt a month or two that I had
so much to do that it boggled my mind.
Tom started his business in
the 1970s in the midst of a renaissance of interest in Ford Model Ts and
Model As. But as he worked he continued to think about and study the Popular
Science article and convinced himself he could build the quadricycle.
Hed already begun collecting parts, or rather pieces that he could
make into parts, for the vehicle.
Of course everything Ford used
to make the vehicle he had to make himself, and Tom did the same.
It started with a farm
sale where I found a differential with what I thought were the right gears.
I bought it off a junk pile for a dollar, recalls Tom. Then
I bought the pipe for the cylinders. Six months later a friend of mine
found a round piece of steel 18-inches in diameter. That became the flywheel.
I just started stashing things and picking up things and finally I started
working on it.
At first I thought there
is no way I could build it because it would take a terrific amount of
skill and a large number of tools. Well, I acquired the tools and I honestly
dont think I had enough skills until I was 70 years old.
Fords original quadricycle
engine was a simple device that used no carburetor or starter. Ford started
the motor by dripping gasoline into tubes and hand turning the large flywheel
until the motor fired. He could also push start it, but because it didnt
have a clutch he had to quickly jump on before it got away from him.
The quadricycle also had no
brakes. Ford rigged a lever that loosened a drive belt allowing the vehicle
to coast to a stop. He often had to rub his feet against the front wheels
to bring the machine to a complete stop. A friend rode a bicycle in front
of the vehicle warning people with horses to get control of their animals.
With the original design in
mind, Tom built his quadricycle with a few modern conveniences like a
carburetor, brakes and an electric starter.
Ford was 33 years old
and could push start it, jump on and go. When youre 83 you dont
jump very far so I had to improvise, Tom says.
Using only the descriptions,
some measurements and a few photographs from the Popular Science
article, Tom figured out how to build nearly every piece of the vehicle,
except for one. He couldnt get a look at the main bearings on the
crankshaft so he visited the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich., where
the original quadricycle is on display.
One advantage of Fords
engine design is that nearly every part is visible. Once Tom got a look
at the original quadricycle he carved wooden patterns of the bearings,
which a foundry in Keokuk used as forms to make the real thing. Tom says
that at $160 the bearings were his biggest single expense in the car.
Tom says he believes his replica
is the only quadricycle with a working engine based on the original other
than the two cars in the Ford museum. He has seen replicas powered by
lawn tractor motors, but he didnt want to take that easy route,
he says.
That simple little engine
is the heart and soul of the car, says Tom.
Nearly 40 years after a magazine
article became an obsession, Tom fired up the finished engine and drove
off for the first time in the quadricycle. Hes been a regular at
fairs and festivals in north Missouri and southeastern Iowa ever since.
Building the quadricycle capped
a long career restoring automobiles that began with the Ford Model T.
Tom bought his first T in 1951, trading a Wizzer motorized bicycle and
$35 for the car. Thats a far cry from his pride and joy, a completely
restored bright red 1911 Model T which has cost him considerably more
to rebuild, including a set of original 1910 Model T headlights which
cost $300.
They were well worth
it, but I still had to think about it for awhile, says Tom.
Though he claims to be retired,
Tom still has a few projects left. Toms wife, Ida, 81, a Clark County
schoolteacher for 42 years, accompanied her husband to Model T shows and
tours across the country until her health began slowing her. Because Ida
has lived with arthritis nearly her entire life (she was diagnosed while
still in her 20s), Tom invented a passenger seat in one of his Model Ts
that slides sideways on rails out of the car and onto the pavement allowing
Ida to get into the vehicle comfortably.
Tom says his wife has always
enjoyed his interest in old cars almost as much as he has and will sometimes
sit in the shop in a comfortable chair and watch him work.
And if you ask Tom what tool
or gadget hes made that hes most proud of, hell tell
you without hesitation. Its a walker with a platform to stand on
mounted on four wheels that he uses to help his wife move around their
home. Thats the one thing Ive made thats done
the most good for someone, he says.
Tom is an encyclopedia of knowledge
about Model T parts, variations and history. In the tightknit Model T
collectors community hes still the person to see for help
finding parts or advice on rebuilding the Model T engine. His shop is
a parts museum.
But what is noticeably missing
from his shop is anything resembling shop manuals or plans. If shop manuals
for Model Ts existed, he still wouldnt rely on them.
If I need something,
I just make it. You know what they say, Necessity is the mother
of invention.


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Savory breakfast suggestions
Does anyone out there have some interesting savory breakfast suggestions?Would love to herem?
This might be more of a Dine n' Dish request. But to answer and to bring it around to cookbooks, how about tofu scramble? There are tons of possibilities there, many found in Vegan Brunch by Isa Chandra Moskowitz. She also has vegan omlettes and other savory recipes.
Hm. Smoky Curls from Vegan Diner as a make ahead dish that you can reheat at breakfast? The dish itself doesn't take too long either. It requires soy curls but you can store those in the freezer until you need them.
Or maybe smoothies? Although I don't make vegetable smoothies I know some throw kale, etc in. That'd be fast.
Some people eat adzuki or other beans for breakfast.
Have you ever made a chickpea flour omelette with veggies? Technically this is not a grain as it is from chickpeas. If you google "chickpea flour omelette" there are a ton of different versions of it. I make this often for breakfast and it only takes minutes. If you want it totally from scratch you could grind your own chickpeas with a high speed blender, though I tried it and my tummy didn't like it for some reason.
This morning I had kidney beans and chard sauteed together and a little salsa on top. I eat a lot of beans for breakfast, sometimes as spreads and sometimes whole with veggies or on toast. I'm not sure why you are avoiding grains but there are so many healthy high nutrient dense ones to choose from, like millet, wild rice, buckwheat groats. I like to take raw buckwheat groats and add almonds and blueberries to it and just a tiny bit of water to soften it just a little but still retain a nice crunch. If you wanted it more savory you could eliminate the blueberries and add grated zuchini or carrot and savory spices, or other seeds and nuts and so on.
You could blow the whole idea of "breakfast" dishes out of the water and have something like bean and vegetable soup or just vegetable soups for breakfast, or a big garden salad, or a handful of nuts and a cooked or raw vegetable, the possibilities are endless. I make a sweet potato and black bean dish with savory spices sometimes (garlic, cumin etc), and I could see having this for breakfast too. You could make a big batch the night before and then have it for several mornings. A little goes a long way and is very filling.


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My house sits on a couple of acres, most of which is growing something. There is a big vegetable garden, some trees, berry bushes and decorative shrubs, a little lawn and lots of flowers.
I could spend a fortune, I suppose, if I bought flowers for every square foot of flowerbed that I have. Over the years, however, I have learned how to transplant small plants that started on their own from seed — "volunteers" — and how to divide existing perennials.
Let's start with the volunteer plants. The first thing one must do is learn to recognize the young seedlings — and not pull them as weeds. I do this mainly by the color and texture of the leaves, but shape is important, too. And of course, you can't use bark mulch in the flower beds if you want volunteers. I grow perennials close together so that they shade out weeds, and try to pull any weeds that do grow before they go to seed.
Twenty years ago a neighbor pulled up in front of my house and handed me a cardboard box with 8 candelabra primroses (Primula japonica). I accepted them with pleasure, and went directly to a good reference book to find out what they needed: rich soil, light shade, consistent moisture. I had those conditions under a small grove of wild apple trees, and planted them there.
Now I have hundreds of candelabra primroses and many other kinds. Once I realized that one primrose would grow there, I tried other species, and all but one (P. vialii) have done well there — and spread. Most spread by seed, and one (P. kisona) by root, like a groundcover. I regularly dig primroses and move them or give them to friends.
Giving excess plants to friends, especially lesser known varieties, is a great way to save money. I find that if you give a person a nice clump of flowers, you are most certainly going to go home with 2 or 3 new plants for your own garden.
Dividing plants is easy, once you get the hang of it. But you have to know what kind of root each perennial has, and that generally means some experimentation. The only book I have found that describes dividing for most common perennials is The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting & Pruning Techniques by Tracy DiSabato-Aust. That's a book that should be in every gardener's library because it tells you how to prune, deadhead, get to re-bloom, divide and more. It's in hardback at $34.95 (Timber Press, 2006) and worth every penny.
It is best to divide most perennials in the spring when the foliage is just 3-6 inches tall. Tough characters like hostas and daylilies can be done anytime, though preferably on a cool cloudy day if doing so now. I recently divided a few hostas and took off a section from a large bugbane or snakeroot (Cimicifuga ramosa), and none showed signs of stress.
You can cut out a section of a large hosta or daylily by cutting out a wedge with a spade or even a long knife. I sometimes use a serrated root knife I got from Lee Valley Tools. Tracy DiSabato-Aust prefers a non-serrated knife, so I guess either will work just fine. Get down on your hands and knees and try to see natural division points before you cut.
Alternatively, you can dig up a plant, place it on the ground and then use 2 spading forks to separate it. Just insert them into the middle of the clump, back-to-back, and work the forks back and forth. It's a lot of work for a big clump of daylilies. I prefer just to cut up a clump with a sharp spade. The spade lets me stand on it with all my weight to slice through the tough roots. I once divided a 4-foot wide clump of Joe Pye weed (Eupatorium maculatum) and ended up using a pick ax to whack it apart. Not a pretty sight, but I was determined to remove and divide it.
Groundcovers send out roots and can be divided anytime. Just dig up a plant, sever the root from the mother plant, and move it to a new location. Easy. Some plants have fleshy taproots that are easily broken, and these are not good candidates for division. Peonies, Oriental poppies, bleeding heart and pink mallow fit in that category. They should be divided in the fall — though little seedlings move easily, spring or fall. Siberian iris should be divided in fall.
Some plants go downhill and become less vigorous if they are not divided on a regular basis. Have you lost a nice Shasta daisy? If so, please try again — but divide it every 3 years. That allows you to add compost and slow-release organic fertilizer to the soil, which rejuvenates the plants.
The easiest, least expensive method for getting more flowers is just to save seeds and plant them. I plant when the seeds are ripe, just scratching them in where I want more plants next year. I do this with Jack-in-the-pulpit, annual poppies, foxgloves and rose campion, and they generally reward me handsomely.
So don't spend a fortune. Divide, trade with friends, start things by seed. In no time you'll have all the plants you need � even if not all the plants you want.
Henry Homeyer is the author of 4 gardening books. His Web site is www.Gardening-Guy.com.
Transplanting is best way to expand garden
My house sits on a couple of acres, most of which is growing something. There is a big vegetable garden, some trees, berry bushes and decorative shrubs, a little lawn and lots of flowers.


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What a week: Tom Cruise allegedly auditioning candidates for wifely duties, DNC firepower in Charlotte and Katie Holmes tells us why she is not afraid of make-up.
Who are this week's PRV winner and Losers?
LOSER OF THE WEEK: The PR Verdict: F (Full Fiasco) to Tom Cruise and Scientology. Vanity Fair charges that Scientology held auditions for the role of Mrs. Tom Cruise. Church denials are to be expected but the problem is the source is respected publication Vanity Fair, owned by Condé "We Don't Like Being Sued So We Pay Our Fact-checkers Well" Nast. This may be tough to disprove. It might be better to concede that Tom prefers to marry within his religion but add that there was no audition process. Sometimes it's better to lower the temperatutre than fight the fire.
WINNER OF THE WEEK: The PR Verdict: A (PR Perfect) for Michelle Obama. Style met substance and captured the pundits and the public imagination. Huffington Post and others hailed Michelle Obama at the DNC, but when Dem-adversarial Fox News gives you the high-five, you've done your job well. And those arms! We couldn't take our eyes off them.
And finally:
THERE'S-NO-"THERE" -THERE PR: Katie Holmes talks exclusively to People TV about why "she is not afraid of makeup." Nearly two minutes of content-free product placement by cosmetic company Bobbi Brown. Why does Katie love makeup, how did she get over her make-up fears, and what secrets did her mother tell her the about hidden world of foundation? We're astonished (truly).
(Editor's note – a previous mention regarding Julian Assange has been withdrawn due to an editing error. Please disregard).


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President Obama was playing to his most extreme "green" constituency in his climate and energy speech at Georgetown University today, blasting global warming skeptics as "flat-earth society" ostriches with their heads in the sand. President Obama said he does not have "patience for anyone who denies that this problem is real."
"We don't have time for a meeting of the flat-Earth society," Obama said. "Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it's not going to protect you from the coming storm." Obama claimed that the call for urgent action to stem the threat of global warming is based on the "overwhelming judgment of science, of chemistry, of physics, and millions of measurements."
The president apparently has not gotten the memos; his Oval Office staff must be keeping him in the dark concerning very important recent developments in climate science and even more significant developments in climate and energy policies. As we reported yesterday, some of the leading voices in the global warming alarmist choir have been admitting that the climate catastrophes predicted by the computer models have not materialized and that the alleged "scientific consensus" is a fraud. The influential British journal, The Economist, suggested in an article on June 20, that "the public has been systematically deceived" for years with all this talk of certainty and consensus about dire consequences attributed to man-made, or anthropogenic, global warming (AGW), and the supposed urgent need for drastic, costly, painful public policies to address the "crisis."
"The planet is warming. Human activity is contributing to it," Obama said in his Georgetown speech.
The president seems to be unaware that even top climate alarmists have admitted that there has been no evidence of global warming for at least the past 15 years. This absence of warming has been the source of much head scratching, debating, and theorizing in the climate activist circles. As we have reported, the UK Met Office and Professor Phil Jones, the former director of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, are among the many alarmists who have been forced to acknowledge the reality of the lack of any warming trend or crisis. The New American's recent articles (see below) on the false consensus list dozens of top scientists who have defected from the alarmist ranks, and provide links showing literally thousands of scientists contest the warming theories President Obama champions as the basis for his energy policy proposals.
The president's energy program, outlined in this White House Fact Sheet and detailed in "The President's Climate Action Plan," both released today, would place onerous new restrictions on coal fired power plants and other fossil fuels and would direct billions more dollars into funding "renewable energy" sources, such as solar and wind. As we have reported, these are policies that have already proven to be enormously wasteful here in the United States, and in Germany and other European nations (see here and here) have proven to be disastrous.
Spain has already shown us the destruction that can be wrought by the kind of government-mandated "green jobs" President Obama is proposing. Dr. Gabriel Calzada Álvarez is an Associate Professor at King Juan Carlos University in Madrid, Spain, where he teaches Applied Economics at the Environmental Science Faculty. In March 2009, along with two colleagues from the same University, Dr. Calzada released a major study on the Spanish experience with "green jobs."
In testimony to the U.S. Congress, before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, Prof. Calzada presented highlights from the study, including these sobering facts:
• For every 1 green job financed by Spanish taxpayers, 2.2 jobs were lost as an opportunity cost.
• Only 1 out of 10 green job contracts were in maintenance and operation of already installed plants, and most of the rest of the working positions are only sustainable in an expansive environment related to high subsidies.
• Since 2000, Spain has committed €571,138 ($753,778) per each "green job,"
• Those programs resulted in the destruction of nearly 110,500 jobs.
• Each "green" megawatt installed on average destroyed 5.39 jobs elsewhere in the economy, and in the case of solar photovoltaics, the number reaches 8.99 jobs per megawatt hour installed.
"Spain has already attempted to lead the world in a clean energy transformation," Dr. Calzada told the congressmen. "But our research shows that Spain's policies were economically destructive. When the president of a country with a relatively low unemployment rate like the US decides to learn how to create jobs from a country like Spain with the highest unemployment rate among developed countries, it should be in a field where that country has a demonstrable track record of job creation. Unfortunately, this is not the case of job creation in Spain through public support for renewable energy."
James Lovelock, considered by many to be one of the "founding father" scientists of the environmentalist movement in the U.K., has been unsparing in his criticism of wind power and his former global-warming alarmism, which he now says grossly exaggerated the non-crisis of climate change. Professor Fritz Vahrenholt, one of Germany's most famous "greens" and a longtime AGW alarmist and champion of renewable energies, has likewise admitted to having been very, very wrong on these matters. Like Lovelock and many other leading scientists, Vahrenholt is calling for an end to the climate change hysteria and an end to the "green" lobby attacks on conventional fossil fuels.
"The Myth of Green Energy Jobs: The European Experience," by the American Enterprise Institute, is one of many reports that surveys the economic and environmental disasters caused by renewable energy policies in the EU. This report focuses on the renewables follies in Denmark, Italy, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
Even MSM organs such as USA Today, which normally hew to the climate catastrophist line, have reported on Europe's renewables debacle. Instead of trying to ridicule renowned scientist skeptics by recycling Al Gore's tired and discredited quips about scientific consensus and "flat-earth society" opponents, President Obama's speechwriters would serve him better by acquainting him with more of the latest climate research and analyses of the failed energy policies of those countries that have already gone down the road the president is proposing for us.
Photo of President Obama at Georgetown: AP Images
Related articles:
Cooking Climate Consensus Data: "97% of Scientists Affirm AGW" Debunked
German Firms Flee to U.S. to Avoid Staggering "Green" Energy Costs
Global Warming "Consensus": Cooking the Books
Climate "Consensus" Con Game: Desperate Effort Before Release of UN Report
Global Climate Warming Stopped 15 Years Ago, UK Met Office Admits
Germany Cuts Subsidies to Floundering Solar Industry


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Social Security planning is an important part of planning for female clients and can attract them to advisors' practices, according to a webinar held on Wednesday.
Moderator Marie Swift of Impact Communications introduced Martha Sheddon of ClientFirst Financial, who said that for pre-retirees, "the hunt for income is on." Social Security planning is "not an up-front money maker," she acknowledged, "but it's a source of goodwill and segues into other opportunities."
Clients can't ask questions they don't know they need to ask, so advisors need to "create demand for education," Sheddon said.
Female clients in particular are in need of more help. "More women should be receiving more financial advice," she said pointing to changing demographics in the work force. Half of managers are women, she said, and of the 15 job categories expecting growth, all but two are dominated by women.
When and how to begin claiming Social Security benefits are important decisions for anyone, Sheddon noted, but women's longer life expectancy, less time in the work force, lower lifetime earnings overall and tendency to marry older men means they are likely to outlive their partners and have lower benefits.
"It's important for couples to plan for survivor income to be largest for the widow," Sheddon said. One of the difficulties in planning, though, is that it requires highly personal conversations right away, for example, when estimating life expectancy.
Frank Horath, another speaker on the webinar and author of "How to Grow Your Financial Practice with Social Security Income Planning," suggested "female clients embrace this topic." He outlined a case study wherein a 62-year-old man files for benefits, then suspends them to provide spousal survivor income for his wife after his death. If the husband files at age 62, his wife can collect $1,725 per month, with $331,200 when her husband dies. If he waits until age 70 to file for benefits, her monthly income from Social Security increases to over $3,000, with a survivor benefit of $582,912.
Sheddon presented a second case study wherein a divorced woman claims "ex-spousal" benefits at age 66, then begins taking benefits based on her own earnings at age 77. Divorced clients can claim benefits on their ex-spouse's earnings under certain conditions, according to the Social Security Administration: the marriage must have lasted at least 10 years, they couple must have been divorced for at least two years, the client claiming the benefit should be at least 62 and hasn't remarried, and their own benefit would be lower than the one they could claim on their own record.
In the second case study, a woman has a benefit of $1,800 while her ex-husband has a benefit of $2,200. By claiming the ex-spousal benefit at 66 and switching at 70, she can capture an additional $80,000.


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The following is, I swear, what the admitting hospitalist's note said:
"Impression: Patient who took LSD around midnight, and is now brought in for bizarre behavior and hallucinations. We will consult neurology to determine cause of altered mentation, check MRI, EEG, and labs. May need spinal tap to rule-out meningitis."


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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - A robotic space probe nearly 900 million miles from Earth turned its gaze away from Saturn and its entourage of moons to take a picture of its home planet, NASA said on Monday.
The resulting image shows Earth as a very small, blue-tinged dot - paler and tinier than in other photos - overshadowed by the giant Saturn's rings in foreground.
"We can't see individual continents or people in this portrait of Earth, but this pale blue dot is a succinct summary of who we were on July 19," Linda Spilker, Cassini spacecraft lead scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a statement.
Cassini snapped the picture on Friday, the same day NASA's Mercury-orbiting MESSENGER probe imaged Earth as well. In that picture, Earth and the moon take up less than a pixel, but appear large because they are overexposed.
"That images of our planet have been acquired on a single day from two distant solar system outposts reminds us of this nation's stunning technical accomplishments in planetary exploration," MESSENGER lead scientist Sean Solomon, with Columbia University in New York, said in a statement.
"The whole event underscores for me our 'coming of age' as planetary explorers," added astronomer Carolyn Porco, who oversees the Cassini imaging team at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
Usually, spacecraft in the far reaches of the solar system don't look back toward Earth to avoid damaging their instruments by direct sunlight. Last week, the sun was temporarily blocked relative to Cassini's line of sight, allowing the US space agency to take the picture.


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SAKAYA's March Tastings Come Roaring In…Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
March is the crazy month that can't make up its mind. It's an unpredictable mixed bag with frigid, blustery winter weather one day and a gentle, mild glimpse of Spring the next. The March tastings line-up at SAKAYA follows this theme of unpredictability with its own mixed bag of sake topics: regionality, special early Spring namazake releases, collections of two experts' favorites, and some well-chosen selections from an importer's impressive portfolio…
Saturday, March 1, 2 to 4PM – Mr. Ataru Kobayashi of Niigata nihonshu importer Niigata Sake Selections will offer visitors an exceptional opportunity to taste several of their small production brews including Kakurei Daiginjo, Midorikawa Honjozo, Yukikage Tokubetsu Junmai and one more…
Tuesday, March 4, 6 to 8PM – Mr. Kohiyama from Hokkaido brewer, Takasago will visit us to introduce Taisetsu Junmai Ginjo, and Ginga Shizuku Junmai Daiginjo, the "ice dome" sake that epitomize this sakagura on the northernmost island of Japan.
Saturday, March 8, 2 to 4PM – Our good friend Mr. Sake Samurai, aka the well-known UrbanSake blogger, and sake authority Timothy Sullivan shares his insightful commentary while pouring several of his favorite sake.
Thursday, March 13, 6 to 8PM and Saturday, March 15, 2 to 4PM – JotoSake Founder and CEO Henry Sidel and his NY Sales Director, Midori Nakazawa debut a selection of their artisanal breweries' early spring namazake (unpasteurized sake).
Thursday, March 20, 6 to 8PM – World Sake Imports' sake expert Andrew Richardson will share several selections from their exemplary portfolio of premium nihonshu.
Saturday, March 29, 2 to 4PM – Sakagura sake sommelier par excellence Chizuko Niikawa returns to SAKAYA to share her picks for sake to celebrate Spring!
Please join us to experience and explore the pleasures of these outstanding sake. We look forward to welcoming you at SAKAYA!
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My Guild started progress on Heroic Imperial Vizier Zor'lok 10M last night and encountered this problem:
When boss goes to second platform, 1 tank and 1 healer would follow him and boss just goes nuts. Each time healer enters second platform boss will just melee healer ignoring tank as he wasnt even there.
Here is what we tried:
Sending 3 diffrent tanks to make sure its not tank's fault
Sending 3 diffrent healers
We made sure that tank is in melee range
We made sure that healer is standing 30 yards away (still gets killed by melee attack)
We made sure tank enters second platform first (attacks boss for ~5 seconds before healer enters)
We made sure tank taunts boss (boss attacks healer even when boss was taunted 0,5s ago)
Our priest even used fade when he entered second platform, after 3 seconds of fade boss instantly switched target and killed him with melee attack
Is there some specific way we have to do it or its just bug? Is it possible warlock's gateway causes this?


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vera neumann was an american artist and entrepreneur. she is best known for her bold colored patterns on her linens and scarves, signed with her script "vera" and a ladybug. world war two was in full swing when vera found that the linen supply was dwindling. searching for more linen for her products, she came across extra parachute silk at an army surplusstore. vera scarves launched the business into immediate popularity and vera was soon on a first-name basis with women around the country. marilyn monroe was a fan, as well as grace kelly. women around the country chose vera products for their color and happy prints.
these are from scott lindberg's collection


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Just five percent of all games rated by the ESRB and published in 2010 were classified as M, a marginal decline from 2009 when they accounted for 6 percent, the board said in a news release today.
The smallest portion of the 1,638 ratings the ESRB doled out last year belongs to EC which, safe to say, few reading this site ever play. Early Childhood got 1 percent of the ratings. E accounts for 55 percent, followed by T at 21 percent and E10+ at 18 percent.
Not in this tally, of course, is the dreaded AO, which renders a title effectively unpublishable in North America. Just 24 games have been rated AO in the 17 year history of the classification, one of the original five ratings. The most recent AO-rated game was Manhunt 2 for the PC. Just two console games, one for the obscure CD-i, have gotten the mark.
5% of games in 2010 rated M - ESRB [GameSpot. Chart via Gamespot]


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So as I was watching the new Where The Wild Things Are HD clips, I noticed the main monster was named Carol. I'm pretty sure the monster's a guy, so that prompted me to wonder if Carol can be a guy's name also. When I was playing Tales of Vesperia, the little brat was named Karol, which also got me wondering.
After discussing with Ungsunghero, I arrived at this Wikipedia page: Carl (name). Apparently there's a whole slew of names that derive off of Carl (i.e. Charles). Apparently Carol is a male name in Romanian and a female name in English. Karol is a male name in Polish/Slovak.
Ungsunghero then brought up the question why Peg is short for Margaret. This was the first time I heard of that and asked if Peg Bundy's real name is Margaret. Apparently her mom calls her Margaret. I countered with if it's really that much off compared to Dick == Richard. Looking up in Wikipedia, there's a whole slew of diminutive form for Margaret (i.e. Maggie, Madge, Marge, Meg, Megan, Rita, Daisy, Greta, Gretchen, Magee, Marg, Meggie and Peggy).
When I showed this to Ungsunghero, Daisy being in that list blew his mind. After searching a bit, I found this page: Why is Peggy the nickname for Margaret? In it, it explains how Daisy came about:
Regarding the question about how Peggy derived from Margaret, you showed some astonishment that Daisy derived from Margaret. It is, in fact, the origin of the name. La marguerite is French for daisy. Daisy historically (until this century) has been a common diminutive of Margaret, and in the fifteenth century Marguerite d'Anjou, wife of England's Henry VI, used the daisy as her personal symbol.
Following how names come about is always fun and interesting.


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How to use a Set
Put simply, a Set is a Collection that contains no duplicate elements. Sets are a fantastic utility to have in the arsenal, allowing one to find, sort, and iterate over unique values quickly and easily.
A little background: a Collection is an interface which is used to groups object. The interfaces Set and List both extend from Collection, and thus the most commonly used Collection implementation - ArrayList (or its interface List) - is somewhat related to a Set, with mutual functions inherited from the Collection interface. That being said, a Set and List differ in some key ways.
On to a demonstration:
public static void main(String[] args){ String[] strings = {"1","2", "3", "4" , "1", "2"}; //create the Collection objects java.util.List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>(); Set<String> set = new HashSet<String>(); //Add the same values to each object for ( String s : strings ){ list.add(s); set.add(s); } //print out the contents of each collection System.out.println("List Contents:"); printCollection(list); System.out.println("Set Contents:"); printCollection(set); } /** *Prints the values of the parameter collection to the command line. */ public static void printCollection(Collection<String> c){ Iterator<String> it = c.iterator(); while ( it.hasNext() ){ System.out.println(it.next()); } }
This code adds the same values to both a List and a Set, and outputs the values contained within those Collections. Two important things to note:List Contents: 1 2 3 4 1 2 Set Contents: 3 2 1 4
1) as defined by the implementation the Set has no duplicate values, as opposed to the List which contains all values placed within the Collection.
2) the order of the Set output does not equal the order of its input. Based inherently upon how it is implemented, a Set (at least a HashSet - see below) has no guarantee of the order when the values are retrieved (see below).
Guarantee Set Order:
One advantage to using a List lies in the fact that order is maintained. The basic implementation of a Set - the HashSet - cannot guarantee any order. This limitation is fixed with a LinkedHashSet, an implementation of the Set interface backed by a LinkedList. This object guarantees no duplicates, whose iterator iterates over its objects in the order of entry. I will leave it up to the reader to test the demonstration of a LinkedHashSet by substituting the HashSet in the example above with a LinkedHashSet.
How to define equality:
Equality in a Set is defined by two values: the equals() and hashCode() methods of an Object. These methods could be a subject of an entirely separate tutorial, suffice it to say these two methods define object equality. Typically for custom made object, these methods default to those defined in object - this behavior defining equality based upon object references - and not their values. The following example extends off the previous, using a custom object as a demonstration:
public static void main(String[] args){ Tester[] strings = {new Tester("1"),new Tester("2"), new Tester("3"), new Tester("4") , new Tester("1"), new Tester("2")}; //create the Collection objects java.util.List<Tester> list = new ArrayList<Tester>(); Set<Tester> set = new LinkedHashSet<Tester>(); //Add the same values to each object for ( Tester s : strings ){ list.add(s); set.add(s); } //print out the contents of each collection System.out.println("List Contents:"); printCollection(list); System.out.println("Set Contents:"); printCollection(set); } /** *Prints the values of the parameter collection to the command line. */ public static void printCollection(Collection<Tester> c){ Iterator<Tester> it = c.iterator(); while ( it.hasNext() ){ Tester s = it.next(); System.out.println(s.value); } } /** *A Custom class with only a single variable for demonstration. */ private static class Tester { final String value; public Tester(String s){ value = s; } public String getValue(){ return value; } }
First, notice the Set contains no unique values (relative to the value variable in Tester). This is because the the hashCode()/equals() is defaulting to the implementation in Object - testing for unique instances, and not the values of those instances. To solve this, one can override these methods to define equality:List Contents: 1 2 3 4 1 2 Set Contents: 1 2 3 4 1 2
This addition results in unique values in the Set, based upon the value variable in the class Tester.@Override public int hashCode() { final int prime = 31; int result = 1; result = prime * result + ((value == null) ? 0 : value.hashCode()); return result; } @Override public boolean equals(Object obj) { if (this == obj) return true; if (obj == null) return false; if (getClass() != obj.getClass()) return false; Tester other = (Tester) obj; if (value == null) { if (other.value != null) return false; } else if (!value.equals(other.value)) return false; return true; }
If I want a unique collection, why not test if a List contains the object before adding it again?
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List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>(); for ( String s : Strings){ if ( list.contains(s) ){ continue; } list.add(s); }
Yes, but lets push this to the limit a bit. In the example below, identical values are placed in both a List and a Set. These Collections are then searched for values with time for both operations being tallied and printed.
final int MAX = 10000; java.util.List<Integer> list = new ArrayList<Integer>(); Set<Integer> set = new HashSet<Integer>(); for ( int i = 0; i < MAX; i++ ){ list.add(i); set.add(i); } long start = System.currentTimeMillis(); //calculate the time for a list search for ( int i = 0; i < MAX; i++ ){ if ( list.contains(i) ){ //do nothing for the demo } } long end = System.currentTimeMillis(); System.out.println("Time for List: " + (end-start)); start = System.currentTimeMillis(); //calculate the time for the set search for ( int i = 0; i < MAX; i++ ){ if ( set.contains(i) ){ //do nothing for the demo } } end = System.currentTimeMillis(); System.out.println("Time for Set: " + (end-start));
System dependent of course, but a quick output on my current system:
Time for List: 161 Time for Set: 4
The reasoning behind the differences in time values is based the differences in how values are stored. While the details of this is beyond the scope of this tutorial, but suffice it to say the lookup in a Set is MUCH faster. A simple analogy (and only an analogy) to the difference: searching an array list is like looping over an array to find a value, whereas searching a set is similar to inherently knowing the index of the value in the array (based upon its 'hash' - eg the hashCode() method). For more information, see WIKI - HashTable
Yes this is pushing things to a limit, but more than once I have noticed huge benefits in runtime performance by using a Set when it is more appropriate to do so.
Unique lines in a file, unique url's in a webpage, unique values in a dataset. Both Set's and List's have their own uses in different situations: Set's for unique values, and Lists for sequential, and duplicate values.


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A McDonald's restaurant on Baseline has received several complaints after allegedly barring homeless customers from entering the restaurant last week.
McDonald's, 2920 Baseline Road, usually opens its inside dining area at 6 a.m. Yet a recorded phone call between the restaurant's manager, Manuel Lopez, and a customer named Darren O'Connor, showed that the dining area stayed closed on Thursday morning, apparently to keep out customers who appeared to be homeless.
McDonald's owner Aaron Holland said the closure was not meant to discriminate, but was only intended to give the understaffed location a chance to catch up after getting a larger-than-average crowd so early in the morning.
Yet in the recording, Lopez said the closure allowed the restaurant to cut down on customer complaints.
"We have a lot of homeless guys coming up, and if it's just a couple of them, we usually let them in because it's cold. . .when there is a lot of them, we have to do something because a lot of the customers complain about it," Lopez said in the recording.
O'Connor, who recorded the phone conversation and posted it on YouTube after learning that only the drive-through was open, said the restaurant was unfairly discriminating against the homeless.
"You are clearly discriminating against. . .our homeless community, who is coming in with money to buy food and drink, and you're closing the doors," O'Connor told Lopez in the recording.
Businesses can be put in difficult position
Homeless advocacy groups said discrimination is upsetting, but also acknowledged that limited resources can put restaurants in an awkward position.
"Businesses pick up a lot of slack for places for homeless people to be," said Isabel McDevitt, executive director of the Bridge House, a day shelter and social service agency serving the homeless. "Because we don't have comprehensive overnight and then day services, the business community takes on a role in providing shelter when it's really cold and in off hours. It has to do with our fragmented services."
Holland, who has owned the McDonald's since 1996, said the fast-food location prides itself as an "oasis" for anyone needing a warm place to eat a meal or have a cup of coffee, and the location is a common place for homeless people to stop by, especially when the weather is cold.
"Everyone is entitled to come into the restaurant. They have a right to come in and eat," he said.
The short-staffed restaurant had to keep the dining area closed
Holland said some regular early-morning customers are from BOHO, or Boulder Outreach for Homeless Overflow. BOHO offers overnight shelter at several churches and synagogues when the weather turns cold.
The restaurant has closed the dining area in the past to do repairs or to help employees complete tasks when the restaurant unexpectedly gets a bigger-than-average crowd, he said.
Yet in the recording, Lopez said customers have continually complained about homeless customers, and "it is getting worse and worse and worse."
Holland agreed that some people have complained about customers who appear homeless, but said the only time people are turned away from the restaurant is if someone — homeless or not — is acting inappropriately.
While some people complain, others support and welcome homeless customers, he said. "The homeless find that we're accommodating," he said.
'We were as surprised as anyone else'
Nancy Brinks, chair of the board for BOHO, said she had heard several BOHO guests complained about being shut out of the McDonald's on Thursday morning. Some of the guests had stayed at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church the night before, which is just down the street from the McDonald's.
Brinks said she had not previously heard any complaints about the McDonald's treatment of homeless people.
"We were as surprised as anyone else," she said. "Generally, the community is fairly understanding, especially when the weather is brutally cold, that they need a place to come in from the cold."
Joy Eckstine, a board member with BOHO who has worked with Boulder's homeless community for years, said she has heard stories on both ends of the spectrum.
"I've heard that there are places that are really kind and will let people buy a cup of coffee and sit there to get out of the cold, and I've also heard about stuff like this, where someone is discriminated against just on the basis of appearing to be homeless."
Eckstine listened to the audio recording and said she was "shocked and upset."
"It disturbed me thinking about how incredibly cold it's been," she said. "If someone scrounges together two dollars to buy a cup of coffee, being able to sit inside somewhere for an hour can be the difference between being okay and getting really sick."
At the same time, Eckstine said it underscores the broader community need for a safe warm place for homeless people to be during the day.
"There are these places where the tension grows because the purposes are not compatible or designed for both things to be happening," she said.
Judd Golden of the Boulder County chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said private businesses have broad discretion to refuse service so long as they aren't discriminating based on race, gender or another protected class. For example, they can discourage customers who spend very little money and take up space for a very long time.
Contact Enterprise Staff Writer Megan Quinn at 303-410-2649 or email@example.com